Field DispatchLara, Barquisimeto

    The Neighbours' Ledger

    In July the desk said Lara would make the recovery arithmetic or break it. Four months on, the arithmetic of the cuts is being done by the people sitting in them. The utility publishes no schedule. A citizens' observatory publishes the hours. And in Washington the 2020 bondholders' date moved again, the day before it arrived.

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